US 2020/0005577 A1 · BANKNOTE PROCESSING APPARATUS

Abstract

A banknote processing apparatus capable of properly storing and dispensing a banknote is provided. The banknote processing apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports a banknote; a long-edge orientation storage unit that receives and stores, in a first orientation, the banknote transported by the transport unit, the first orientation being an orientation in which a short edge of the banknote is a leading edge thereof; a short-edge orientation storage unit that receives and stores, in a second orientation, the banknote transported by the transport unit, the second orientation being an orientation in which a long edge of the banknote is a leading edge thereof; and a control unit that selects, by controlling the transport unit, a storage destination for the banknote transported by the transport unit, from among any of the long-edge orientation storage unit and the short-edge orientation storage unit.

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Dependent claims

A banknote processing apparatus, comprising:

a transport unit that transports a banknote;
a shifting unit that is disposed on the transport unit and shifts a transported position of the banknote;
a first banknote storage unit that receives a first banknote from the transport unit in a first transported position and feeds the first banknote to the transport unit in the first transported position;
and
a control unit that controls the shifting unit to shift a second transported position of a second banknote to the first transported position and transport the second banknote to the first banknote storage unit in the first transported position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Banknote processing apparatus

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Banknote processing apparatus

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Abstract

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